Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the war over and M. Guérigny back from the front , the brother and sister became intoxicated with the experience of freedom . |
| 2 | However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently . |
| 3 | The first time they tried out death in the arena the Christian got infected by the general bloodlust and bit the lion . |
| 4 | At the meeting on the 5 November the BSI Standards Board agreed to recommend to the BSI Main Board , which met on the 28 November , that the new body be permanently established . |
| 5 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 6 | The first half had virtually passed Ferdinand by , but at least the £5 million-rated QPR striker got involved after the break although without much success . |
| 7 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 8 | His ghost became known as the Bad Lord , it being a noxious POLTERGEIST who irritates the family 's descendants more as time goes by — roaring in the cellars , splintering furniture and frightening maidservants . |
| 9 | Faced with the loss of their previous high-performance computer in 1987 , the university got backing from the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry to purchase a large Computing Surface to serve both as a research vehicle and a flagship site for Meiko . |
| 10 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 11 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 12 | Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian delegation failed to progress during the seventh round . |
| 13 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 14 | NOT only did the Kiwis get blown off the park at the Hong Kong Sevens by Fiji , but three gnarled members of their supporters club got taken to the cleaners in a local hostess bar . |
| 15 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 16 | He was saying he was ‘ hard-faced ’ and cited an incident where his girlfriend got attacked in the ground and the man ‘ did n't want to know ’ . |
| 17 | The Superintendent got to work on the telephone . |
| 18 | Every other nation on the continent got overrun by the axis powers in World War two , as nations had been overrun , or partly overrun , in wars for centuries past . |
| 19 | When a Palestinian delegation asked to participate in the armistice negotiations , its request was rejected and the armistice was signed only by East Bankers . |
| 20 | Keegan led Newcastle to promotion in 1984 but the club failed to build on the success . |
| 21 | This anomaly became known as the West Lothian question as it was continuously raised by Tam Dalyell , the Labour Member for West Lothian and a firm opponent of devolution . |
| 22 | When the power of the higher civil service declined after 1942 and the state administration became absorbed into the party structure , the running of the economy was handed over to the most powerful monopolists . |
| 23 | Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) . |
| 24 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |
| 25 | ‘ Bill says the Lorrimores ’ private car got detached from the train on Sunday evening . |
| 26 | Established as the West Midlands Training College in 1963 , the institution became known as the West Midlands College of Higher Education with the establishment of a range of diversified degree courses . |
| 27 | As it became apparent that considerable variations in training were to be found , the ( now ) British Library Research and Development Group for Research into Public Libraries felt that more information was needed about current practice , and in September 1982 , British Library Research and Development and The Library Association agreed to liaise on the development of an exploratory survey . |
| 28 | The office of president ceased to exist upon the death in 1980 of Marshal Josip Broz Tito [ for which see pp. 30472-73 ] , being replaced by a Collective State Presidency whose eight members ( one from each republic and province ) are elected for five years ( most recently in May 1989 — see pp. 36662-63 ) by the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Parliament ) . |
| 29 | Frankie Dettori , Forest Tiger 's rider , told the stewards that the colt failed to quicken with the field at the three-furlong marker and then ‘ died on him . ’ |
| 30 | This result became known by the maxim : " A black hole has no hair . " |